1. Module 1
Learning
with Emerging
Technologies:
Theory and Practice
SUNY Empire State
College
Spring 2013
Jennifer Coe
Lindsay DeSormeau
Hatti Langsford

2. 1. The role of change
2. What are Emerging Technologies?
3. How do we learn?
4. What skills and abilities will we need
as we educate into the future?
Four Parts of Module 1

3. The Role of

4. Do we drive technology?
Or is technology
driving us...
We need to think not just about what technology
is and how we learn in it's context; but where
technologies are emerging from; and how they
are changing how we learn...

5. What are emerging
technologies?

6. Veletsianos gives 5 criteria for technologies
to be considered emerging:
1. They may or may not be new
2. They are "evolving organisms that exist
in a state of 'coming into being'"(Veletsianos p.13)
3. They "go through hype cycles" (Veletsianos p.14)
4. They are not yet fully understood or fully
researched
5. They are "potentially disruptive but their
potential is mostly unfulfilled" (Veletsianos p.16)
Veletsianos, G. (2010). A Definition of Emerging Technologies for Education. In Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
(pp. 3–22). Retrieved from http://www.icde.org/filestore/News/2004-2010/2010/G.Veletsianose-
bookEmergingTechnologies.pdf
Defining "Emerging Technologies"

7. • Video and podcasting
• Digital presentation tools
• Brainstorming and organizing tools
• Blogs and blogging
• Social networking
• Lecture capture tools
• Student response systems, surveys,
polls
• Educational gaming
• Open Educational Resources
Categories of Emerging
Online Technologies

9. How do we
learn?

10. Application to
Learning with
Emerging
Technologies:
• Learner-Centered
• High learner
engagement
• Interaction
between learner
and content
• Interaction
between learners
and facilitator
• Interaction
between learners

11. 21st Century Learning
Skills

12. Framework for
21st Century Learning

13. Perhaps it is less relevant to consider
what specific technological skills we
will need and instead to do the same
things that successful humans have
always done...to employ good critical
thinking skills, standards of ethics, and
pliant adaptability in the face of
change.
What really matters?